January 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING GO. 



No. 15 West 38th Sheet. New York. 

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HENRY C. PEARSON, Editor 



Vol. 45. 



JANUARY 1. 1912. 



No. 4 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS ON LAST PAGE OF READING. 



LOOKING BACK AT 1911. 



HP HE past year, during which The India Rubber 

 *■ World completed its twenty-second year of con- 

 tinuous publication, has been one of exceptional industry 

 in and about our office, for it has been a busy year in the 

 whole rubber world and we have no thought of lagging 

 behind. During the twelve months ending with our 

 December issue we gave our readers 562 pag£s of care- 

 fully prepared, and we trust informing and valuable, read- 

 ing matter covering every phase of the rubber industry. 

 This is over 100 pages more reading than we printed in 

 1910, or in any preceding year. 



It is hardly necessary to refer in detail to the contents 



of these 562 pages, but it may not be improper to make 



special mention of the notably comprehensive description 



which appeared in our August issue of the great rubber 



^exposition held in London in June and July, and also of 



""■ the series of eight letters by the editor on rubber condi- 



tions in Dutch and British Guiana, giving the result of 



^ his observations during several months of travel in those 



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mteresting but to most rubber men unfamiliar countrieseoTANi 



Two events occurred during the year, one of miner UA«0» 

 importance and the other of great moment to this publi- 

 cation. The first event referred to was the moving of our 

 offices from the downtown to the new uptown business 

 center of New York. Our new quarters are in the heart 

 of the new commercial district of the metropolis, close to 

 the great hotels where our out-of-town friends would 

 naturally take up their abode while in this city, and within 

 two short blocks of that limitless repository of informa- 

 tion, the palatial Public Library, from whose stores we 

 expect liberally to draw, and to whose fund of informa- 

 tion we hope modestly to add. We do not assert that it is 

 owing at all to our example, nor due primarily to the de- 

 sire to be in our immediate vicinity, but it is interestino- 

 to note that the greatest of American rubber corporations 

 has announced that it also will soon desert its downtown 

 location and move into its own marble skyscraper even 

 further uptown. 



The other event of the past year that affected this 

 office, and aflfected it deeply, was the sad taking ofif of 

 Mr. Hill, for many years the associate editor of The 

 India Rubber World. This blow came most unex- 

 pectedly, early in February, and inflicted an incalculable 

 loss upon this publication. For twenty-one years he had 

 stored his wonderfully retentive memory with a fund of 

 information bearing upon every conceivable phase of the 

 rubber industry, which reposed in his orderly mind ready 

 to be drawn on and used at a moment's notice. Few men 

 have ever possessed such a store of knowledge pertaining 

 to any industry or been able to put it to such instant and 

 efliective use. 



In the rubber world at large events have been on the 

 move, some moving rapidly, some more slowly, but on 

 the whole showing marked progress. Rubber planting 

 has gone on with great strides and one specially signifi- 

 cant incident has been the purchase on the part of many 

 rubber manufacturers of tracts of land for their own 

 rubber plantations. The product of rubber plantations 

 during the past year has been about double that of the 

 year before. The shipments from the Amazon country 

 have remained about the same as in 1910. 



Crude rubber prices declined during the first six months 

 and have been fairly stable during the last six months, 

 being highest in March, when Upriver fine sold at $1.68, 

 and lowest in June, when the same quality dipped to 94 

 cents. 



In the manufacturing field the year has been one of 

 average activity in most departments, while in the case 



